Surreal indeed!

When the IPCC took over the investigation, a meeting was convened with the family and City of London police. When the video was replayed at the meeting, the family were deeply upset when Crampton remarked that the man shown attacking Tomlinson could have been a member of the public dressed in a stolen police uniform.

The family were astonished by the intervention, believing it showed the senior officer who until then had led the inquiry was "either unable to accept the obvious truth or determined to hold on to a falsehood at all costs".

Mahaffey disagreed with the family, saying "the possibility of a police impersonator needed to be explored".

Thanks for the link, henryp -- good article.